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Telling Stories through Digital Threads: The Elections in Iran
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This is the topic of my new post on Life in the Renaissance. You can read and comment at http://bigenhoc.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/lack-of-risk-puts-nation-at-risk/
I am participating in this year’s Center for Innovative Teaching: Integrated Technology Symposium hosted by The Urban School in San Francisco. I will be participating in all the sessions and will be Live Blogging them as the “symposium blogger”. Ple…
I have provided a link to the slides from this Live Classroom 2.0 presentation along with presentation links and resources. I understand the recording of the presentation will be up in a couple of days. I would love to hear from you about your stori…
I will be the guest on Live Classroom 2.0 tomorrow (12:00 Eastern, Saturday July 25th) and will be sharing a powerful, moving story of the first two weeks of the Iranian elections as told by the world through social media. The session is scheduled f…
Thanks for posting. I shared the twittering idea with our History faculty. What a great way to get current content for our courses!
It took me a while but I finally got this up with more to come. Travel and writing has taken up most of my time. Travel is good but I am learning about the paper chase for getting published.
NECC- Day 2 Reflection (Finally Posted)
If you are at NECC 2009 in D.C., tomorrow (Monday) from 12:30 to 1:30 I will be presenting a session about learning through alternate reality games. This Hands-on session (bring your own laptop with Internet or Internet capable phone) will be in the…
Sorry for the cross post...
As I was getting ready for this year's "show", I started a list of things I would be looking for. I wrote a blog post about it which you can read here. I was wondering about everyone else. What will you be looking for th…
New post on ARG blog for NECC 2009 Unplugged.
http://argnecc2009.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/so-what-is-this-arg-tha...
See where it all began. More info to follow as we get closer. Watch out, you may never know when the game begins.
CB
I have set up a blog just for the "unplugged" session I will be doing at the 2009 NECC conference in D.C. This session is scheduled for Monday June 29th from 12:30 to 1:30 at NECC Unplugged. This blog will be used to promote the session as well as o…
I will be presenting a 1 hour hands on session (you provide laptop with Internet access or Internet phone) on teaching and learning through Alternate Reality Games (ARG's). This session is scheduled for NECC Unplugged on Monday June 29th starting at…
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- Greenhill School
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- Director of Educational Technology
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- Dallas, TX
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Lack of Risk Puts Nation at Risk
This is the topic of my new post on Life in the Renaissance. You can read and comment at http://bigenhoc.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/lack-of-risk-puts-nation-at-risk/
Posted on September 18, 2009 at 1:21pm — 2 Comments
Join me for 3 days of live blogging at the Integrated Technology Symposium hosted by The Urban School in San Francisco
I am participating in this year’s Center for Innovative Teaching: Integrated Technology Symposium hosted by The Urban School in San Francisco. I will be participating in all the sessions and will be Live Blogging them as the “symposium blogger”. Please join us during these sessions through the live blog links and join in the conversation. These links along with information about the sessions and times can be found on the Symposium Blog.
The symposium starts tomorrow August 3 and runs through th… Continue
The symposium starts tomorrow August 3 and runs through th… Continue
Posted on August 2, 2009 at 9:01pm —
NECC- Day 2 Reflection (Finally Posted)
It took me a while but I finally got this up with more to come. Travel and writing has taken up most of my time. Travel is good but I am learning about the paper chase for getting published.
NECC- Day 2 Reflection (Finally Posted)
NECC- Day 2 Reflection (Finally Posted)
Posted on July 23, 2009 at 4:04pm — 1 Comment
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We've been interesting in purchasing space to use in the Google Web Albums, but I've been concened because the Terms of Service suggests that there will not be warnings before changes in Service. If I'm reading the terms correctly, they co…
One of the changes I made in my current laptop program was to discontinue insurance coverage on the laptops. We have the three-year Apple Warranties on the Macbooks, but we don't have insurance on accidental breakage or theft.
One reason we did thi…
A video taken during a recent visit to Singapore ... a Christmas Carol played on an unusual instrument.
Orchard Road with a backdrop of the Christmas lights
Share your work arounds and enhancement requests for Finalsite.
2010 NAIS Annual Conference at Moscone Convention Center
February 24, 2010 at 9am to February 26, 2010 at 7pm
Adapt, Survive, and Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within
"The 2010 NAIS Annual Conference is designed to support interests expressed by independent school leaders - all of whom face intrinsically difficult issues within their unique positions.…
Discuss which technology skills are essential to the job of an educator and how to measure and improve teachers’ capabilities for productivity and classroom integration through the use of technology standards or proficiencies.
I know that many of you use Flickr with your classes. Others of you use Flickr for other purposes like archiving school photos for promotional, development, and such.
Flickr's Community Guidelines clearly state that the service is for personal use…
Online School for Girls Adds Four More Member Schools
A nationwide consortium of four independent all-girls’ schools that created in June 2009 the first-ever online school dedicated to secondary education for girls this past fall has expanded its m…
Let me know what you think of this project and if you've tried something similar. I'm happy to share details.
Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S. History Class.
Please view a short (3 minute) interview about my recent History project: Using Facebook as a teaching tool.
Processing (processing.org) is a Java-based language that allows you to do some exciting visual effects and at a much more advanced level link realtime data to algorithms to present data in visual formats. Digital artists use it for that creative el…
Nice one, Fred. As a digital enthusiast, I'd happily stick to the task of enumerating the real skills we can identify our students may need for the future, so long as someone doesn't then make them mandatory, stick them in a list to provide a checkb…
James,
How does this fit with the following famous quote attributed to Socrates?
"Worship the gods if you wish, but first, know thyself."
Fred
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